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The Magistrate

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12. Kenneth Roberts

Reply to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 11:58 AM

May 2020

"They call war an art, but it's not. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends, and that's not art: That's business."

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Please share a favorite quote, saying, proverb... [View all] discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2020 OP

John Kenneth Galbraith Cirque du So-What May 2020 #1

Irish Proverb Flo Mingo May 2020 #2

"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do." chia May 2020 #3

Elwood P. Dowd wryter2000 May 2020 #4

'This time like any other, is a good time, if we know what to do with it' - R.W. Emerson empedocles May 2020 #5

'This too shall pass' empedocles May 2020 #7

"It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks." DemoTex May 2020 #6

[Had to look it up], KJV, new King James version empedocles May 2020 #9

Heard this once on an OLD TV show MyOwnPeace May 2020 #8

Dylan: LakeArenal May 2020 #10

My maternal grandmother. Arkansas Granny May 2020 #11

Kenneth Roberts The Magistrate May 2020 #12

#1. A winner. yonder May 2020 #16

Thanks -- that's a keeper! (nt) Duncan Grant May 2020 #32

NSFW but, RGinNJ May 2020 #13

"I am not a member of any organized political party." Laelth May 2020 #14

I'll throw in another Will Rogers quote I've always liked -- and believed. Different Drummer May 2020 #33

+1 n/t Laelth May 2020 #38

Two from the economist Keynes DBoon May 2020 #15

World's Greatest Dad ItsjustMe May 2020 #17

+1 n/t Laelth May 2020 #19

"I can't make everybody happy; I'm not coffee" donkeypoofed May 2020 #18

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." -- Abraham Lincoln malchickiwick May 2020 #20

Oscar Wilde SKKY May 2020 #21

I always thought that was a line from The Pretenders (Chrissie Hynde) IcyPeas May 2020 #40

It may very well be, but I know it from Wilde's... SKKY May 2020 #46

"A promise made is a debt unpaid" Glorfindel May 2020 #22

Never argue with stupid people ... Martin Eden May 2020 #23

This was a poster hanging on lots of walls of early '70s post-Hippies: UTUSN May 2020 #24

LOL! Mostly posted by lazy room/housemates SharonClark May 2020 #25

I guess there's nothing left to say but this: UTUSN May 2020 #27

Love that! Different Drummer May 2020 #35

It's handy for shutting down Flamers, but they mostly don't stop!1 UTUSN May 2020 #36

If If there are no dogs in heaven, SharonClark May 2020 #26

Edward Lear quaint May 2020 #28

The man quoted is somewhat questionable in his politics but it is still pertinent marked50 May 2020 #29

John F. Kennedy? Edmund Burke? R. Murray Hyslop? Charles F. Aked? John Stuart Mill? quaint May 2020 #31

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I was referring to my selection in the marked50 May 2020 #37

Me, too. quaint May 2020 #39

Got it. Should of Clicked on your link. n/t marked50 May 2020 #42

"Never Assume" demigoddess May 2020 #30

Three I can think of off the top of my head ailsagirl May 2020 #34

Alan Watts (I think) IcyPeas May 2020 #41

John Kenneth Galbraith: July May 2020 #43

All great changes are preceeded by chaos. nt littlemissmartypants May 2020 #44

British Airways Pilot is alleged to have come up with bluecollar2 May 2020 #45